Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Pinterest obsessed

Hi my name is Angela, and I am obsessed with Pinterest.  There I said it!  It started with wedding planning, and I must admit, it helped out a ton.  My wedding wouldn't have been as wonderful as it was without Pinterest....wait that sounds bad.  I got married and that was the best thing ever, but the decor wouldn't have been as amazing without Pinterest...much better!  Ok so after the wedding I wasn't sure what to look at since I don't really have finished rooms in the house to decorate.  Well after some serious digging I have come up with projects! 

The first one is a decoration but a useful decoration that doesn't necessarily need to be displayed


I love this project for multiple reasons.  One, because it serves an organizational purpose.  And two, because I get to display my wedding earrings all the time!!  This was actually a fairly easy project to accomplish.  Goodwill frame, spray paint and some chicken wire.  Matt refused to help me, which is probably a good idea since it was easy.  But I did use the wire cutters and staple gun all by myself!


Project number two became my favorite instantly!  A beautiful fall wreath.  I can so decorate the front door!!


Yep I still love it!!  And besides having to buy the starting tools, a wreath hook, glue guns and glue sticks, this wreath cost me under 10 bucks!!  It does take a bit of time to complete this project, but I did finish it in one night.  Once you buy the approiate materials, straw wreath, yarn and felt, it is a pretty easy task.





So I started with a knot on the wreath and then I wrapped and wrapped and wrapped.  About three hours on and off later I was complete!  Then I started on the felt flowers, to be honest I was a bit scared of these because I thought they would be hard.  I am not a crafty person by any means.  This was so much more easy than the wrapping of the yarn.  I started with a 25 cent piece of felt and cut a scalloped circle out.  Next I cut that into a spiral continuing with the scalloped pattern.  Then take the very edge that you started cutting and start rolling it up.  When you finish, you have a beautiful felt flower.  I got creative and folding a big and small one up together to make the multi-colored flower.  I hot glued the last circle piece to the back to secure the flower and then hot glued the flowers onto the wreath.  I added the P last minute and I am glad I did.  I think it turned out better than I could have imagined and was so proud of myself.  I have already started on my second wreath and I want to make one for every season and every holiday.  I just love them!!

Here are the sites with the tutorials I followed.  They explain it better than me!  You should make these!!
http://love2sisters.blogspot.com/2011/04/show-and-tell-monday-diy-jewelry.html
http://www.danielleburkleo.com/2010/10/diy-yarn-wreath-with-felt-flowers.html (yes I used the same colors she did)

Monday, September 3, 2012

Yes, it has been over a year...

One day back in August of last year this blog just stopped...since then I have been asked by many people if I am still blogging.  I really enjoyed blogging but for some reason just discontinued.  The number of people I didn't know read they blog asking me about the blog inspired me to start back up.  So here goes..

So much has changed in my life in this past year.  For example I got engaged, got married and went on a dream honeymoon!!  


We have got a ton done on the house in the past year as well.  I was trying to look through the last few blogs and see where I left off.  It looks like we were working hard on the landscaping.  Lets see what I can dig up for some updates.


So we finally finished the landscaping out front.  We have even put a ton of plants in it and it looks great.  I would say the yard is good to go if it wasn't for the extreme heat....now all the grass that was trying to get established...died.  So now we will be working on that and then it will be great!  We also got the new fireplace installed complete with Steve, the deer head, above it.  This will not stay but for now I will humor \Matt since he thinks otherwise.  We also completed our hardwood floor!!  We had this floor for over a year and got it installed THE WEEK OF our wedding.  Like the finishing pieces were complete on Thursday the week of.  But regardless of when it was done, it IS done.  It looks wonderful!  As you can see from the pictures we also got the living room and dining room painted.  Now we are working on the trim.  We have it all stained and Matt is working on cleaning the garage up a bit so he can spray the varnish stuff on.  I can't wait to have the trim around the windows, doors and floors.  I really think it will make the whole space.  Then I am REALLY excited to get new furniture and start decorating.  I think at that point it will really feel like home!

Ok I think that is the updates for now....on to the reason of this blog FOOD!!  In my last couple posts I talked about my love with the blog skinnytaste.  This love is still going strong, in fact I have most of my family cooking from it as well.  This morning I checked out the website when I woke up crazy early for a good breakfast idea.  Unfortunately nothing caught my eye, so I went to my other go to, Alton Brown!  Alton's blueberry muffins were the winner today.


They were pretty tasty, although they did call for orange zest and I did not have any oranges.  So my next thought was lemon zest, which I didn't have either.  So I thought I would just add a dash of lemon juice, but I couldn't get the bottle open....so nothing went in for the orange zest.  Matt thought they could use more sugar, I thought they were great.  Not your typical overall sweet muffin, but good.  I will for sure eat the leftovers this week so that is always a good sign. 

That is probably enough for the "getting back into the swing of things" post.  I am planning a little DIY project today so stay tuned for that!!  I have all the supplies and am excited to show it off.  Thank pinterest!  Until next time...